LEGAL PROTECTION OF THE RIGHT OF WAY AS LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSETS BY OPTIMIZING THE ROAD CLASS

Abstract

The road is a land transport infrastructure that has a very important role in the development process to achieve state purposes. Right of way management as an asset by the local government is an instrument to control the utilization of the road. Right of way is intended for space benefit, widening the road, adding traffic lanes in the future, and safety. Based on the type and the movement of the traffic and road transport, road functions distinguished by arterial, collector, local, and neighborhood. The use of the road that grouped by the use of roads, streamline traffic and road transport, have to consider road class and provision of road infrastructure specification. The road construction has a limited ability to accommodate the vehicles through which depend on the quantity and weight of a vehicle. Determination of the class can provide the tonnage limit of vehicles that will use the road. Legal protection of the right of way will be achieved when the activity in the right of way in accordance with the preset function. Determination of the class may affect the legal certainty for road users in the various activities of life. With the designation of classes of roads, the legal protection of assets can be realized.